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| a043114 | Through our struggles and pain, we are being offered perseverance, the character of God. Hardships are intended to give us a spiritual makeover, "that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). Therefore, when God encourages us to persevere, he is not stumbling for encouraging words. He is teaching us how to look like him." | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e56d2fd | The feeling of emptiness is usually a sign that we have put our trust in something that can't sustain us. It reminds us that we were created to trust in our heavenly Father and nothing else. We were created to enjoy the many things God gives without making them the center of our lives. When we confuse the two, our lives feel out of kilter. To feel better, we try again and search for love apart from God, but when we finally realize that it i.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 95103cc | The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 4c978c8 | His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and its own particular movements which he tried hard to follow. He had learned from it how to keep his eyes down on the road, so that he could see no one, and how important it was never to look back - although there were times when memories of an earlier life filled him with grief and he lay face down upon the grass until th.. | homeless-people homelessness mental-illness vagrant | Peter Ackroyd | |
| f2b6957 | Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads. | disorder riot | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 92facf9 | I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 2be9dfd | If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. | lie politics | Marjorie Garber | |
| d4e6d0e | Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. | christianity faith religion war | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| 78c8ece | What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 43ecc3e | You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that's what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. Then one day you'll discover you're in the zone and you don't feel your legs anymore, you don't feel your arms anymore. You exist just as motion. That's the zone. Then you can do anything. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 644610c | Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI. | humor sarcasm | Lisa Gardner | |
| d7d7e8a | Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3d59697 | Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard." | inspirational survival | Lisa Gardner | |
| f38cac6 | Damn it, it wasn't quite fresh enough! | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 6d86769 | Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion - imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of mood and build up a vague illusion of the strange re.. | fiction subtlety weird-fiction | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| c737fa9 | the geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0fdc447 | It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| aa6d6eb | The blind cosmos grinds aimlessly on from nothing to something and from something back to nothing again, neither heeding nor knowing the wishes or existence of the minds that flicker for a second now and then in the darkness. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 62bab94 | A mountain walked or stumbled. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 967edae | Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| cd8cb15 | It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 02567ed | With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0cb40f0 | It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience. Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental .. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| af5a5d0 | That is what they say I said when they found me in the blackness after three hours; found me crouching in the blackness over the plump, half-eaten body of Capt. Norrys, with my own cat leaping and tearing at my throat....When I speak of poor Norrys they accuse me of a hideous thing, but they must know that I did not do it. They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rat.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5e50e7d | Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 6832b68 | The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed." "Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it." -- | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| d2bb87e | Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| e670a88 | Emily looked into his eyes. They were blank, unreadable. That was the worst kind of person, the scariest--the one who'd learned to keep his feelings out of his eyes. Or who didn't feel anything at all. Emily had known people like that; they were the destroyers. They took things--everything you worked for, all your silly dreams--and smashed them beneath their boots for no reason at all. | eyes-the-true-expression | Lisa Unger | |
| c5ec27b | Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 32a51be | They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 39cb4aa | We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us. | Lisa Unger | ||
| a5b2418 | Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 1d50138 | New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of me at the Citibank ATM, but you've been standing there punching buttons for ten minutes--what are you trying to do, write a novel on it? You hear those beeping noises? That's the ATM saying, "Stop it, you're hurting me." A chicken would have gotten forty bucks out of that thing by now just by pecking the buttons randomly." -- | technology | Bill Maher | |
| 2b2082b | If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream. | humor ice-cream milkshake milkshakes | Bill Maher | |
| f032995 | New Rule: If you're going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you may as well go ahead and make it about something. With all due respect to my friends Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, it seems that if you truly wanted to come down on the side of restoring sanity and reason, you'd side with the sane and the reasonable--and not try to pretend the insanity is equally distributed in both parties. Keith Olbermann is ri.. | Bill Maher | ||
| 0ba66e3 | New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word "France." Like just calling something French is the ultimate argument winner. As if to say, "What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully conceived and brilliantly executed war in Iraq?" And yet an American politician could not survive if he uttered the simple, true statement: "France has a better health-care sy.. | elections france politics | Bill Maher | |
| 2c4b453 | Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American. | freedom patriotism politics sacifice selfish selfless war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| 106382d | New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. | easter humor peeps | Bill Maher | |
| eb53768 | My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me to use the excellent brain he gave us all. | religion | Bill Maher | |
| ec51145 | Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's making new records. Suck on , Partnership for a Drug-Free America! | humor jimi-hendrix laziness music productivity | Bill Maher | |
| 85b09dd | Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance. | intolerance religion religious-extremism tolerance | Bill Maher | |
| 563439e | New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed. | drugs humor politics | Bill Maher | |
| 4d7f0c1 | New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environment. "At Exxon Mobil, we care about a thriving wildlife." Please--the only thing an oil executive has in common with a seagull is they'd both steal french fries from a baby." | humor oil-industry | Bill Maher | |
| 8f81b22 | We saw the same sunset. | life unity universe | S.E. Hinton |